Description (CMS Description)
Mounted watercolours by C.F Gordon Cummings of Fiji and New Zealand. For each painting the original caption is given, the date where available, the original number noted on the mount, and the Acc. no. where applicable:
(1) Nivaku point. Vanua Leva (monkey face pasage[?])
Aug. 1876 (50) z-4145
(2) Vale ni Lotu (English church) Levuka Fiji
May 1876 (10)
(3) Suva Harbour. Viti Levu- Great Fiji (62) z-4147.
(4) Palace yard Bau Fiji- Houses of Cacanibau (?) (Vunivalu and Tin Viti (?)), and of Adi Litia and Ratu Timothy May 1877 (47) z-4149
(5) Bau, native capital of Fiji looking towards Viti Levu Ovalau and Motoriku May 1877 (46) z4150
Notes indicate occupants and functions of name of the buildings.
(6) From Bau looking to Viti Levu, New Years Day 1876 (51). Notes indicate features of town eg Miniar [?] house, Burial place of Tanoa, site of cannibal ovens, etc.
(7) Bau, Fiji (52) z-4148
(8) Malaki Iule and Na Vua Vua, chief town of Raki Raki, and the Mamunga or salt pans among the Tiri (Mangrove) from the house of B. Hadley (?). 13 Oct. 1876
(9) Isle of Ovalau, Fiji, May 1876 (1) z-4146.
(10) Tarawera Tarata ie White Terraces Rotomahana, New Zealand 4 April 1877 (8)
(11) The White Terraces Rotomahana. North Iule. New Zealand 4 April 1877 (13)
(12) Geyser on the path to the White Terraces Rotomahana 4 April 1877 (13)
(13) White Terraces Rotomahana New Zealand 4 April 1877 (5)
(14) The Reiva (Wai Levu) from the place of graves at N. Delandaman 29 Dec. 1875 (65)
(15) Eevie (?) trees, Nambuna, Koro, Fiji 10 April 1876 (21)
(16) Vatu Damu: the [unreadable] behind the needle. Raki Raki. Viti Levu. 12 Oct. 1876 (58)
(17)Levuka, Fiji July 1877 (13)
(18) Sunset from Nananu looking to Viti Levu (42)
(19) Levuka in Ovalau, Fiji, 19 Sept 1875 (11), inc. signatures of a no. of people, inc. A. Gordon, A. Maudslay
(20) Police camp at Waitove, near Levuka, Fiji, Feb. 1876 (15)
(21) Na Vatu and Raki Raki Bay and Kau Vandra range from Malaki Isle 6 oct. 1876 (53). Inc. notes identifying prominent features
(22) Tokow in Ovalau, Fiji 28 July 1876 (3)
(23) Looking to Naleago, Koro (?), Driimba (?), and the cemetery isle Ovalau, Fiji, 1876 (4)
(24) From the bathing place at Waitove, looking to Kovo and Wakaya Fiji July 1876 (16)
(25) Va Via (Koro Tumbo) Viti Levu Fiji, 25 Oct. 1876 (57)
(26) Mango Bay, Fiji 3 Aug 1877 (30)

01/06/1998
Created by: maa on 01/06/1998